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Italian scientist
Ruggiero Lovreglio (know also as Professor Rino ) is an Italian academic based in Auckland, New Zealand. He is an associate professor at
Massey University (New Zealand)
[1] and a
Rutherford Discovery Fellow for
Royal Society Te Apārangi (New Zealand).
[2] His research is focused on large-scale and small-scale evacuation dynamics and safety training using emerging technologies, such as
virtual reality and
augmented reality .
[3]
[4]
Early life and education
Lovreglio lived in
Barletta (
Apuglia , Italy) most of his life before moving overseas. He is from a farming family which did not stop him in pursuing his interest in
science and
technology . He studied high school at Liceo Scientifico
Carlo Cafiero achieving the a final grade of 100/100. He studied civil engineering for his bachelor degree at
Polytechnic University of Bari graduating in 2010 cum laude. He pursued his master studies in the same university graduating in 2012 cum laude.
[5]
Lovreglio obtained his PhD in Civil Engineering from Scuola Interpolitecnica di Dottorato,
Polytechnic University of Bari ,
Polytechnic University of Milan ,
Polytechnic University of Turin in 2016.
[6] He investigated how people make evacuation decisions in evacuation building fires.
[7] He was a Research Fellow from 2016 to 2018 at the
University of Auckland and then at
National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA) to study human behavior in earthquakes and wildfires.
[6]
[8]
Career
In 2018, he joined
Massey University . where he established the Digital Built Environment Lab, focusing on the use of digital technologies for enhanced safety of the built environments.
[6]
[9] Today, Lovreglio is an associate professor at
Massey University (New Zealand) and a
Rutherford Discovery Fellow for
Royal Society Te Apārangi (New Zealand). He is an associate editor for
Safety Science (
Elsevier )
[10] and
Fire Technology (
Springer ).
[11] He is a member of the editorial board of
Fire Safety Journal (
Elsevier ) and
Virtual Reality (
Springer ).
[12]
[13] Lovreglio has published over 80 peer-reviewed scientific works
[14] and he has been leading several research projects related to evacuation and safety training including a Marsden project funded by
Royal Society Te Apārangi .
[15]
[16] He is also representing New Zealand in the
ISO Fire Safety Engineering working group: ISO/TC92/SC4/WG11.
[15] During his career, he has been a guest researcher and lecturer at
Tsinghua University ,
NIST ,
Lund University ,
ETH Zurich ,
University of Canterbury ,
Università Politecnica delle Marche ,
Edinburgh Napier University .
[17]
Selected awards
Selected works
Haghani, M., & Lovreglio, R. (2022). Data-based tools can prevent crowd crushes.
Science , 378 (6624), 1060-1061.
[22]
Lovreglio, R., Dillies, E., Kuligowski, E., Rahouti, A., & Haghani, M. (2022). Exit choice in built environment evacuation combining immersive virtual reality and discrete choice modelling.
Automation in Construction , 141 , 104452.
[23]
Lovreglio, R., Gonzalez, V., Feng, Z., Amor, R., Spearpoint, M., Thomas, J., ... & Sacks, R. (2018). Prototyping virtual reality serious games for building earthquake preparedness: The Auckland City Hospital case study.
Advanced Engineering Informatics , 38 , 670-682.
[24]
References
^ New Zealand, Massey University.
"Associate Professor Ruggiero Lovreglio - Associate Professor in Building Technology - Massey University" . www.massey.ac.nz . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Ruggiero Lovreglio" . Royal Society Te Apārangi . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Stuff" . www.stuff.co.nz . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Using VR to improve fire evacuation understanding" . www.massey.ac.nz . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Ruggiero (Rino) Lovreglio - Royal Society Te Apārangi | LinkedIn" . nz.linkedin.com . Retrieved 2024-02-22 .
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"Ruggiero Lovreglio" . Royal Society Te Apārangi . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
^ ResearchGate.
"PhD thesis - Lovreglio Ruggiero" .
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"Publications" . NIST .
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"People | Digital Tech Cluster" . Sbe Digital Lab . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Ruggiero Lovreglio - Editorial Board - Safety Science - Journal - Elsevier" . www.journals.elsevier.com . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Fire Technology" . SpringerLink . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Editorial board - Fire Safety Journal | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier" . www.sciencedirect.com . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Virtual Reality" . SpringerLink . Retrieved 2024-03-01 .
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"Scopus preview - Lovreglio, Ruggiero - Author details - Scopus" . www.scopus.com . Retrieved 2024-01-19 .
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"ORCID" . orcid.org . Retrieved 2024-01-19 .
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"Marsden Fund awards 2022" . Royal Society Te Apārangi . Retrieved 2024-01-19 .
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"Curriculum Vitae" . Professor Rino . Retrieved 2024-01-24 .
^ Ioannidis, John P. A. (2023-10-04).
"Bibliometrics" . October 2023 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" . Vol. 6. Elsevier Data Repository.
doi :
10.17632/btchxktzyw.6 .
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"Award for Chapter Excellence (ACE)" . www.sfpe.org . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Staff celebrated at teaching and research awards" . www.massey.ac.nz . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Fire Technology" . SpringerLink . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
^ Haghani, Milad; Lovreglio, Ruggiero (2022-12-09).
"Data-based tools can prevent crowd crushes" . Science . 378 (6624): 1060–1061.
Bibcode :
2022Sci...378.1060H .
doi :
10.1126/science.adf5949 .
ISSN
0036-8075 .
PMID
36480619 .
S2CID
254485601 .
^ Lovreglio, Ruggiero; Dillies, Elise; Kuligowski, Erica; Rahouti, Anass; Haghani, Milad (2022-09-01).
"Exit choice in built environment evacuation combining immersive virtual reality and discrete choice modelling" . Automation in Construction . 141 : 104452.
doi :
10.1016/j.autcon.2022.104452 .
ISSN
0926-5805 .
S2CID
239616175 .
^ Lovreglio, Ruggiero; Gonzalez, Vicente; Feng, Zhenan; Amor, Robert; Spearpoint, Michael; Thomas, Jared; Trotter, Margaret; Sacks, Rafael (2018-10-01).
"Prototyping virtual reality serious games for building earthquake preparedness: The Auckland City Hospital case study" . Advanced Engineering Informatics . 38 : 670–682.
arXiv :
1802.09119 .
doi :
10.1016/j.aei.2018.08.018 .
ISSN
1474-0346 .
S2CID
3517873 .